NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Brussels, Belgium, 09/10/2007 - After a comprehensive selection process, Arcelor Steel Belgium, member of the ArcelorMittal Group, has selected the AIS BetaPlanner solution for the optimization of the detailed scheduling of its finishing facilities.

The BetaPlanner of AIS is a leading solution for the short term detailed scheduling optimization of rolling mills which will be implemented on all the downstream production lines:

• 1 continuous annealing line
• 4 galvanizing lines
• 3 organic coating lines
• 3 electro-galvanizing lines

Since last year, ArcelorMittal is undergoing a major project to unify the production environment of their 5 production sites in Liège. Part of this ambitious project was the need of an automated scheduling system for the coating and finishing lines. The flexibility and ease of implementation of the BetaPlanner solution, together with its more than 70 implementations worldwide, was a decisive factor in the selection process.

Mr. Jean-Christophe Botteman, Project Manager ArcelorMittal says: “With this project, we target to increase the quality of the production sequences, with the different business gains linked to it. We selected AIS mainly for the maturity of their solution BetaPlanner, concerning the short term scheduling optimization and editing”.

The project will start in Q3 2007 with the implementation of one galvanizing line. The go-live of the different instances of BetaPlanner will be spread over two years according to the rollout plan of the new production environment.

The AIS Group, headquartered in Linz, Austria, is a leading supplier of planning and scheduling systems for the metals industry. Solutions from AIS increase the efficiency of expensive heavy equipment through the optimization of capacity planning and production schedules. Numerous references worldwide of the SteelPlanner® family of planning, scheduling and control solutions underline the effectiveness and reliability of SteelPlanner® for the metals industry.

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